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Donald "Big Dog" Forbes

03/25/2003

Announcements

Gathering
of Former Players

I was informed by one
of my fellow letterwinners that the Football Letterwinners association will
be having a picnic at 3:30PM on April 25th prior to the annual Spring Game.
As a result, I would like to modify the plans and invite all former football
Scarlet Knights to Athlete's Glenn at 3:30PM.

All Touchdown Club members
are invited to "Touchdown Club Day" at Spring Practice on Thursday, April
3rd for the 4:20 PM practice. Touchdown Club members in active standing will
be allowed inside the ropes to watch the practice up close. If you are not
an active member, you will have the opportunity to join the Touchdown Club
at the practice.

Please note that we are
having problems with our old domain www.rutgersfootball.com. This also effects
any e-mail going to Donald "Big Dog" Forbes at BigDog@Rutgersfootball.com.
Everyone that needs to e-mail me, please use DForbes@Theinsiders.com.

As a result of the problems,
the redirect or access to the URL is no longer working. Please inform anyone
who might be having problems.
Thank you!!!

Football

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Women's Basketball

Christi Thomas, Alexis
Kendrick and Ebony Felder each scored 17 points as Georgia beat Rutgers 74-64
in the second round of the Midwest Regional on Monday night.
The fifth-seeded Lady Bulldogs advanced to the round of 16 for the 13th time.
They will face the winner of Tuesdays game between Duke and Utah in
the regional semifinals Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M.Georgia
KOs Scarlet Knights

Rutgers head coach C.
Vivian Stringer called it a strange game. And with the way the final minutes
panned out, strange seems like the only word that can describe it. Knights
bitten by Bulldogs

The deficit barely less
than the number of seconds left, Rutgers' Chelsea Newton scrapped under the
basket for the missed free throw. Boxed in by three Georgia players, she stayed
low, flailed her fingers, and when one of the black-jerseyed Bulldogs came
up with the ball, she stole it - as they say here in the south - right fast.
The Scarlet Knights refused to give up Monday night, but far away from home
and up against a barrage of head-shaking sweet Georgia moves, Rutgers fell,
74-64, to the Bulldogs in the second round of the NCAA women's basketball
tournament.Knights
foul out

Sure Georgia has the crowd.
And the familiar rims. And the confidence from a perfect 13-0 mark on its
home court.
But the Bulldogs also have the shirts, the "TMW" shirts.
When Rutgers and Georgia tip off tonight at Stegeman Coliseum in the second
round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, the Scarlet Knights won't
just be coming into somebody else's house, they'll be coming into a fairy
tale of a run.RU
looks to end Georgia fairy tale

Scrambling for a rebound
after teammate Dawn McCullouch missed an inside shot late in the game, senior
Mauri Horton fouled Georgia's Alexis Kendrick, which earned her a fifth whistle
and a disqualification. She pulled her teammates close, walked to the Rutgers'
bench, and pulled out her jersey. Late
technical foul ends any hope for a victory

When C. Vivian Stringer
told her mom where the Final Four would be held this year, Thelma Stoner was
ecstatic.
"So you're bringing your team down to Atlanta?" the mother, a Georgia
resident, asked her daughter. Rutgers'
run comes to end

They would not use it
as an excuse after the 74-64 loss to Georgia last night. But as the Scarlet
Knights travel back to New Jersey this morning, eliminated from the NCAA Tournament,
they can only wonder.
What if they didn't have to travel?
For the first time, the NCAA used predetermined sites for the first two rounds
of the women's tournament. In the past, the top four seeds would have hosted
the subregionals on their home court. New
format hurt a travelin' team

Rutgers went into Monday's
game against fifth-seeded Georgia needing to accomplish five things in order
to win. Failure to accomplish all five resulted in a 74-64 loss.
1. Contain 6-foot-5 Georgia center Christi Thomas, who scored 31 points on
13-of-21 shooting in the Bulldogs' win over Charlotte in the opening round.
Key
to Georgia's 74-64 victory over Rutgers

Men's Basketball

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Around Big East

No sooner had the NCAA
men's basketball tournament field been unveiled when some critics said the
selection committee had given the Big East Conference short shrift. Considering
the league's 8-0 record in the tournament thus far, that criticism seems well-founded.Big
East becomes big beast

It took Pitt half of last
season to get its tailback spot settled. Now the Panthers have taken a step
back at the position.
But just a tiny step.Brandon Miree, who emerged as the solid starter, has returned. So have the
other three players who saw game time at tailback, although Marcus Furman
has moved to cornerback. Jawan Walker, who played a limited amount as a freshman,
and 2001 starter Raymond Kirkley are the primary tailbacks behind Miree this
spring.Miree
anchors Panthers' backfield

The Big East threw its
own block party at the NCAA Final Four in 1985 when Villanova, St. John's
and Syracuse represented the conference in Lexington and Rollie Massimino's
Villanova Wildcats won the national championship. For
Big East's 4, 1 for all, all for 1

Suddenly, people are falling
over themselves to say good things about the Big East. A little more than
a week after being slapped with four measly bids to the NCAA Tournament, the
conference full of wallflowers is the darling of the dance. Going 8-0 in the
first two rounds of a tournament rife with surprises can rewrite a reputation
in a hurry. Big
East makes perfect case for more respect

Jim Calhoun stomped his
foot and demanded that his team slow it down, and for once the Connecticut
Huskies ignored his rant. His screams had grown silent, his arena had turned
dark. "Nobody's listening to you, Jim," Pat Calhoun told her husband
as he glared through the TV and worked the refs, coaching against doctor's
orders because no medicine could treat the void in this basketball lifer's
heart. Calhoun's
a builder and a survivor